Cloud Video Walk Through – AWS IoT Button In this video series mastersof.cloud walks through the steps of creating your own ‘personal alarm’ button and details how to configure an AWS IoT Button, join it to your wireless network, connect it to an amazon account, assign it to trigger a Lambda function which finally sends a […]
Problem From time to time there seems to be some ongoing issues where Apple Mac OSX Security and Privacy Allow Button is not working. No matter how many times you click ‘allow’ it simple doesn’t function (yet the button highlights blue as if its been pressed) and this happens regardless of whether you unlock the […]
Scenario Lets script a custom aws appstream image A customer wanted to setup AWS AppStream 2.0 Image Automation for their AppStream image creation especially as there were situations where two or more images were potentially required including monthly updates (minimum) so they needed a repeatable, consistent solution for this. Solution You can only automate […]
Scenario A customer had a requirement for Cloud Hosting With Multiple Proxy Servers and wanted to send some traffic direct to the internet (host or url whitelist), some hosts or urls to one proxy in their cloud hosting and some traffic via another proxy in another peered network in their cloud hosting. Solution Our solution […]
UPLOAD LOCAL FOLDER and SUBFILES to S3 #Load AWS Powershell Extensions import-module “C:\Program Files (x86)\AWS Tools\PowerShell\AWSPowerShell\AWSPowerShell.psd1” #Set AWS Creds to connect to S3. The S3 user should have a specific IAM policy to lock them down to this specific bucket only. See here for example s3 policy Set-AWSCredentials -AccessKey <BUCKETUSERACCESSKEY> -SecretKey <SECRETKEY> -StoreAs default #Upload […]
This policy will assign a specific user access to a specific bucket in s3 { “Version”: “2012-10-17”, “Statement”: [ { “Effect”: “Allow”, “Action”: [ “s3:GetBucketLocation”, “s3:ListAllMyBuckets” ], “Resource”: “arn:aws:s3:::*” }, { “Effect”: “Allow”, “Action”: “s3:*”, “Resource”: [ “arn:aws:s3:::mybucketname”, “arn:aws:s3:::mybucketname/*” ] } ] }
AWS AppStream 2.0 Whats New for June 2018? AWS have updated AppStream 2.0 to introduce some fantastic new features in the May & June 2018 releases. Google Drive support has been added (selectable at fleet creation). It only supports G-suite enterprise and must be enabled in G-Suite to function, but it also has support for […]
Situation Recently a customer received the following message ‘this OS/platform is not authorized to access your Workspace’ when connecting to newly built AWS Workspace instance whilst attempting to connect via ‘Web Access’ https://clients.amazonworkspaces.com/ In more recent WorkSpace Updates (Jan 2019) if you dont explicitly have Web Access enabled you will receive a ERR_CM_REQUEST_FAILED message This OS/platform […]
Problem This month on creation of a new image builder in AWS AppStream we noticed that the AWS AppStream 2.0 Image Builder X Drive was not being created. The X drive is the temporary drive for uploading and downloading files to and from the AppStream instance, and usually where we house deployment scripts, build scripts, […]
Scenario AWS AppStream 2.0 generates a SHA-256 hash of the users NameID for their Home Drive – when using SAML (aka Federated) authentication. This can potentially make it difficult to find the users home share if browsing from AWS S3 or for support teams when supporting users or uploading documents to the users ‘home drive’. […]